Jean Oury

Career

Along with François Tosquelles and Lucien Bonnafe he was instrumental in the creation of institutional psychotherapy whose therapeutic practices influenced Frantz Fanon, Félix Guattari, and the later Anti-psychiatry movements of the 1960s.

Achievements

• He was the founder and director of the psychiatric hospital Louisiana Borde clinic at Cour-Cheverny, France where he worked until he died.

Membership

He was a member of the Freudian School of Paris, founded by Jacques Lacan from inception until its dissolution.